[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/6/2018 9:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/6/18 8:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/6/2018 8:34 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> And, as a trivial piece of code, it really does nothing.
>>> That's easy to understand.  But, as soon as it gets complex
>>> enough to do anything the fun begins.
>>
>> What fun?
>>
>> What constructs in PHP are making it difficult to read?
>>
>> The above code is unrealistic short.
>>
>> But most real world PHP code even though longer use very
>> few language constructs. Often it is just function, if,
>> for loop, foreach loop and a few PHP functions that are
>> often very C inspired.
> 
> I wish I had kept the program that caused all the
> trouble.  It was a program to register for the Dept.
> High School Programming Contest.  It broke when PHP5
> came out.  A professor and 2 students and a former
> student, the one who wrote the program originally,
> worked on it for days with no success.  I replaced
> it with a shell script and some awk in about 15
> minutes.  I later wrote a whole new version in COBOL
> (as a proof of concept) and that took about half an
> hour.  I looked at the original program as well and
> opted to not waste my time trying to figure it out
> when other solutions were available.

Does that mean that your original PHP claim:

# I have never seen any code in PHP that wasn't totally
# obfuscated and confusing even without GOTOs.

really is about one program?

Arne